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Bold grave robbers won't let the dead lie in peace.Vandals are reportedly breaking into graves to steal bones at a Miami cemetery, reports WSVN News-7 in Miami.A woman visiting the cemetery noticed the final resting place for an infant had been disturbed a

ST. CLOUD — David Penney was 7 years old when cops first reported he threatened to kill someone. That was Sept. 28, 2000, at Hickory Tree Elementary School when a school librarian reprimanded him. "I will bring a gun to school and get her next...

Since its inception in 2009, the Orange You Glad Music Festival has relished its ultra-grassroots approach: sticking pretty much to the Mills Avenue neighborhood in its inaugural year and returning with a stripped-down mini-holiday fest in 2010 that still boas

Here's a sure-fire way of ruffling your boss' feathers: Cast a Santeria spell on him using birdseed.Two North Miami Beach employees who were apparently upset their boss, City Manager Lyndon Bonner, had planned to slash the police budget, planned to scatter b

The call comes out of the blue, by pay phone, the prodigal younger sister calling her estranged older sibling.“Where are you? Where have you been?”“Upstate, I think,” is all the confused young woman can manage. Or is that simply all s

Bishop John Noonan will discuss the role of Mary in the Catholic faith as part of the Third Annual Diocese of Orlando Marian Congress on Friday, Oct. 21, and Saturday, Oct. 22.The Marian Congress will provide an opportunity for attendees to learn more about

Republican candidate Mitt Romney faced questions about his faith the first time he ran for president and the issue of his religion has erupted again with a leading Baptist pastor calling Mormonism a cult and declaring that Romney is not a Christian.ReligionLi

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The Blue Oyster Cult will be the musical guest for this month’s Velvet Sessions, the recurring lobby concert/cocktail party at Universal Orlando’s Hard Rock Hotel. The group will perform July 28.The band is a late substitute for the previously announced act,

The Blue Oyster Cult will be the musical guest for this month's Velvet Sessions, the recurring lobby concert/cocktail party at Universal Orlando's Hard Rock Hotel. The group will perform July 28.
The band is a late substitute for the previously announced...

Casey Anthony is expected to get out of jail this weekend.
If so, the news will once again energize the cult of Casey.
These are the people whose prime source of entertainment for the past three years has been the death of a 2-year-old girl.
Caylee's...

Paul Thomas Anderson's next film is about the inside workings of a religious cult led by a charismatic charlatan. Philip Seymour Hoffman is slated to star, and the shorthand version of the project has long been “It's kind of about Scientology and L. Ron

Now it turns out that former PBS station KCET in Los Angeles has sold its production studio to the Church of Scientology. No amount was disclosed. KCET is in talks to move to another facility but will remain at its current location for a year.

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The phrase “with a Scientology bent” turns up in stories about Paul Thomas Anderson's planned movie about a strange and controversial religion, a film that the “There Will Be Blood” director is making with Philip Seymour Hoffman.Will i

Several Orlando-area Catholic churches will extend their hours of confession from 7 p.m.-9 p.m. on Friday, April 8, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 9., during Reconciliation Weekend. Other parishes are also extending their hours of confession, bu

A little respect, if you please, for His Satanic Majesty Nicolas Cage.Nobody goes off the deep end like Nic. Nobody gives better value in bad movies than the sleepy-eyed Oscar winner with a gift for picking bad movies.“Drive Angry” is a very ente

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